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Widget Watch: StopDashboard

by Dave Caolo Oct 20th 2005 at 7:00AM

stopdashLast August, we wrote about Natal Vande Casteele's Disable Dashboard Widget, which has one purpose in life: One click, and it kills Dashboard. This week, Natal released the StopDashboard Widget. What's the difference? Disable Dashboard kills the Dashboard from running for good, while StopDashboard retains the ability to restart it with the F12 key.

I just love the irony of a widget that stops Dashboard from running.
 

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Last August, we wrote about Natal Vande Casteele's Disable Dashboard Widget, which has one purpose in life: One click, and it kills...
 

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Andrew Witte

Hee Haw: no, especially if you never activate Dashboard. It loads the first time you access it in a given login session. Even after that, if no widgets are active, it should use a bare minimum of memory (and it will get swapped out to disk).

October 20 2005 at 10:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stankonia

I don't love Dashboard, don't hate it. Question: even if I have a buttload of RAM, would I notice a speed bump if I turn it off?

October 20 2005 at 12:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael May

QuitDock also does this, and it's been around for a good while now.

October 20 2005 at 11:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iFelix

What a neat little widget.

October 20 2005 at 8:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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